Hot News Stories (9/12/13)

Reuters (USA) The ongoing legislative battle to curtail abortion services is not taking place just at family planning clinics, but in the classrooms of medical schools where already scant abortion education is under pressure of being reduced.Ravalli Republic (Ravalli, MT) The Ravalli County Commission in Montana voted to refuse $50,000 of Title X family planning funding for low income residents citing opposition to giving teens access to hormonal birth control. ABC News (USA) A federal judge has dismissed part of a lawsuit challenging North Dakota’s new anti-choice heartbeat law, the most restrictive anti-choice legislation in the country that threatens to shutter the state’s only remaining reproductive health clinic that provides abortions.